Larry King and Third-Party Candidates Thrown Their Own Debate and This Time, Everyone’s Invited!

Larry King, a cherished, mummy-like gift-shop souvenir purchased at the 1972 Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition, will host a Web-only “presidential” debate. The Associated Press reports: “The former CNN giant will guide next Tuesday’s debate in Chicago, which will be broadcast on the Internet. The candidates taking part are the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson, the Green Party’s Jill Stein, the Constitution Party’s Virgil Goode and the Justice Party's Rocky Anderson.” In the esteemed words of VF.com debate analyst Bruce Handy, “train-wreck alert!”

Per the A.P.: “Organizers say at-home viewers will be encouraged to submit real-time questions on the social media like Twitter, where they'll get King’s attention with the ‘AskEmThisLarry’ hashtag.” One question: “Organizers” plural? As in more than one organizer? That doesn’t seem credible to us. #AskEmThisLarry.

And after the election, only on CNN.com, network royal wedding correspondent Cat Deeley hosts an economic roundtable with Joe the Plumber, Michael Steele, a man who owns An Inconvenient Truth on DVD and remembers it “pretty well,” Ron Paul, and one of Sarah Palin’s children. But which one? Sorry, let us rephrase: But which one? #AskEmThisLarry.